Rules of classification from neural networks to aid decision making in granting of bank credit

Credit-risk evaluation is a very important management science problem in the financial analysis area. Neural Networks have received a lot of attention because of their universal approximation property. They have a high predictive accuracy rate, but how they reach their decisions is not easy to understand. In this paper, we present a real-life credit-risk data set and analyzed it using the NeuroRule extraction technique and the software WEKA. The results were considered very satisfactory, reaching more than 80% of accuracy in granting or denying credit on every simulation.